A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.